Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

Just thought it could be nice to have furigana available for “お疲れ様です!” at the end of review sessions for those who aren’t already familiar with it, but no biggie :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’ve been using bunpro for almost a month now and I’m totally loving it!

The one thing I’d like to see added is custom hints for different grammar points.
The reason is, the English explanations are often quite heavy to understand for a non-native speaker. Also there are so many grammar points that sound very similar to me in English, but for which there is a perfectly matching expression in my native language.

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I’d like to suggest placing example sentences in some kind of order of expected difficulty (I know this is subjective, but more-or-less will do).
A crude but good enough way to do this from my point of view is to just put them in order of length.
There is then an extra incentive to go through all of the example sentences: you go from zero to hero with the grammar point, culminating with tackling the most complicated / longest example sentence.

Case in point, I was totally stumped by the first (very long) example sentence for this grammar point, but found many of the later ones much more manageable:

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This may have been suggested before, but how about being able to filter grammar points by certain criteria? Such as conjugation grammar points etc

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I planned on complaining about the confusing Structure Legend but apparently it has been revamped since I last checked it out. Nice! :slight_smile:

Here is Feedback on something else: There are rules about when a ru-verb is an u-verb in disguise. E.g. I have learned somewhere that ~aru, ~uru, ~oru are always u verbs (except for special verbs like suru & kuru). Knowing this helps me a lot to figure out which Te form (and ta and masu form) to use, which is kind of my weakness ^^.
Side-note: I want to say though that I AM okay with failing otherwise unrelated grammar points for using the wrong Te form. It’s too important to let it slide, I believe.

Maybe there could be a grammar point on masu in which the ru-u-situation could be in one of those blue hint-boxes. I’m not sure though.

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Welcome to the community :tada::tada:
To help with your (for now) weakness, check out these links from @Jose7822 :sparkles:

Helpful post and vids on conjugations and “る” verbs

More info with exceptions pic

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I’m finding the SRS reviews to be incredibly frustrating. There are so many synonyms and so many correct answers for the same sentence, but Bunpro is looking for something specific. While I like the hint system that Bunpro has implemented, I find it too vague and the hints are inconstant with particular grammar points. I’d like a feature to insert user created hints for each grammar point. That way I can just have a hint that says the grammar point is “ったら” or “~ば”. And I can focus on conjugating which is what I feel like Bunpro is for.

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I would like to echo this request, I struggle with conjugation and this filtering system would be SUPER helpful to me.

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Hi,
I have been studying this grammar point lately: かい
I have autoplay audio enabled, and I believe I also have random voice enabled (I couldn’t find again this setting, don’t know where it is) what is bothering me, is for grammar points like 「かい」I always heard a female voice for the audio (maybe randomisation bad luck?)
As this is a grammar point mostly used by men, couldn’t it be better to have male audio only (or by default) for these points ? To be more consistent with the real usage ?

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I’ve been using the vocab lists as a way to revise all the vocab I’ve learned before I retake the N3, making sure I haven’t missed anything. That means I’ve been going through large amounts of vocab per day to get it into my reviews, and I have a couple of suggestions:

It would be great to be able to add words to my reviews without having to click through every page of the learning section beforehand, or add an entire deck to reviews at a certain level at once.

More importantly though, whenever I ‘learn’ 50 vocab words for the first time, I can’t undo and reenter my answers. Because I’ve learned the words before, I might enter an answer that is technically right but bunpro marks it as wrong because it’s spelt or worded slightly differently - e.g. “hips” vs “hip”. I end up stuck in an endless loop on these 50 words until i manage to word them exactly right. It would be fantastic if I could just undo and fix my typo myself, even on the learning section.

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Would it be possible to add Furigana somehow to custom notes? Or maybe superscript/subscript if that is not a possibility?

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I just noticed the ‘cram wrong items’ at the end of my reviews, and first of all, I love something like that.

I started doing it, and noticed that the audio playback is set to female, and I can’t find an option to change it to male.

I have my audio set to male for everything else, so was wondering if I’m being silly, or if there could be an option to change the audio preference in the cram session.

Thank you

quick edit: I seem to get the odd male audio sprinkled in as well. I double checked the grammar points, and the ones playing female audio do have the male audio available too

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Mastery of some grammar points, like て form, is essential for later points, like てはいけない. If you can’t produce the て form of a verb, you’ll similarly struggle to produce て form + はいけない. I read that WaniKani-style unlocks are difficult for grammar, which does seem hard to do universally, but some points have direct dependencies where “no てはいけない before you finish your て!” would be helpful.

Similarly, Bunpro introduces that infamous て form with a giant list of every possible (non-る) conjugation crammed into a single lesson and then gives you no practice with any of them. You answer a single question on one of those conjugations and are then deemed to have learned all the rest. The SRS quizzes are great for recall but not for learning something in the first place, so it’d be great if there was a comprehensive drill or a mandatory “Cram” before adding something complex to your review queue instead of the single question that presently gauges your comprehension of everything.

Sorry if these issues were discussed earlier in the thread; I did a quick forum search but didn’t find anything. Otherwise really enjoying Bunpro, and surprised by how active the developers are in a 2000-post thread.

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Maybe this has already been said, but as with “Reading Practice”, it would be wonderful to have “Listening Practice”.

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That’s one of the reasons I find the whole “ru verb” nomenclature absurd and misleading. Ichidan and godan don’t carry this baggage.

At the very least they should be called “iru/eru verbs”, but even that is not always true.

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I only do batches of ten myself but I agree that it’s a strange discrepancy. Sometimes I’ll type a synonym of just make a typo and I have no way to fix it.

Also sometimes I like to type something wrong on purpose just to see if there’s one of these helpful “what you typed works but we’re looking for something else” or “this isn’t the right nuance here” etc… I find that is sometimes useful to compare and contrast similar items, and also to see if I remembered that other word/grammar point correctly.

I wish there was a way to access the full list of these “soft fail” alternatives for every item, it could be interesting I think.

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When creating your own self-study/custom sentences, it would be sweeeeeeet if the input boxes at the top could be changed to automatically write in hiragana rather than romaji (just like the input boxes during reviews/cram):

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Is it possible to have all English hidden when doing reviews?
I like to have the Japanese nuance to read, but if I see the English nuance, my brain automatically reads that instead, taking away the chance for me to really think about it.

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Finally trying out the vocab decks starting with n5, I really think a bulk setting would be nice. To be able to select multiple vocab to add to reviews/mastered or some other srs stage

Obviously this would be more useful to people who already know a decent amount of vocab wanting to use decks. I can see I know nearly all of the n5 deck so I’d rather just bulk add to reviews/mark mastered, rather than individually “learning” them. Is this a thing on web? Speaking only from app experience on this

Update, doing flashcards style and it’d be really cool to have an option for the audio of the Japanese once you flip the card just so I’ll hear the word each time

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I would like an egg timer (stopwatch) during Bunpro Reviews so that I don’t take too long. @Kumi 's Egg Timer does not currently work on the Bunpro Reviews 2.0 and it does not seem like it would require too much coding (not even 50 lines of Javascript code).

I currently do not have enough technical expertise to implement a stopwatch of my own, but I am working my way towards becoming able to, and if Bunpro implements it natively, I think that would be the best for Bunpro users.